It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?